Device for cleaning hubs of cycle-wheels.



No. 70,809. v Patented Nov. 4, m2.

R.. KLEIN.

DEVICE FOR CLEANING HU BS 0F CYCLE WHEELS. (A'pyiicatibn fil l July 14,1902 (No Madel.) 2 SheetsShaat l.

No. 712,809. I Patented my. 4, I902. I n. KLEIN.

DEVICE FOR CLEANING HUBS 0F CYCLE WHEELS.

(Application filed July 14, 1902.)

(No Model.)

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F IGJL- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT KLEIN, OF HAYNAU, GERMANY.

DEVICE'FOR CLEANING HUBS OF CYCLE-WHEELS SPECIFICATION forming part ofLetters Patent No. 712,809, dated November 4, 1902.

Application filed July 14, 1902. Serial No. 115,471. (No model.)

1'0 (10% whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ROBERT KLEIN, a subject of the King of Prussia,Emperor of Germany, residing at Haynau, Silesia, in the Kingdom ofPrussia and Empire of Germany, have invented a new and useful Device forCleaning the'Hubs of Cycle-Wheels, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to an improved device for cleaning the hubs ofcycle-wheels, and is more especially designed to provide for cleaningthat part of the hub which issituated between the spokes of the wheeland which is accessible only with difficulty, as the spokes are veryclose together at the hub and also cross each other.

This hub-cleaner is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, whereinFigure 1 is a front elevation, and Fig. 2 a side elevation, of the same.Fig. 3 is a side elevation of a cycle wheel, showing the cleaner appliedto the hub. Fig. 4 is a transverse section of this wheel.

The device comprises a U- shaped strap 19, which is covered upon itsinner face with cloth or like material a and carries at the lower end ofits shanks the weights 0, de-

holder 6, the brushes 9, adapted to clean that part of the hub which isnot acted upon by the strap on account of the aforesaid slot (1, andbrushes f, which project laterally beyond the edges of the strap inorder to clean the inner ends of the spokes.

For cleaning a wheel-hub the cycle is placed upon a stand, the strap a,with its weights, is

suspended from the hub, "so that the cloth a the said strap,substantially as specified.

2. In a device of the character set forth, the combination of a U-shapedstrap furnished with a slot in the middle and having its inner facecovered with cloth, weights attached to the said strap, brushesextending into the said slot, and brushes extending sidewise beyond theedges of the said strap, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two subscribing witnesses.

ROBERT KLEIN.

Witnesses:

LOUIS HUMANN, ALBERT SHENK.

